diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/gnunet/gtk.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/gnunet/gtk.nix
index ddeffd8b7e8..2532671bc25 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/gnunet/gtk.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/gnunet/gtk.nix
@@ -39,5 +39,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = gnunet.meta // {
     description = "GNUnet GTK User Interface";
     homepage = "https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-gtk.git";
+    # configure: error: compiling gnunet-gtk requires GNUnet core headers
+    broken = true;
   };
 }